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Experience the World with the Latest Edition of Geography Alive!

TCI

Regions and People program is coming out with a new edition in 2024 that includes new features and elevates old favorites, such as the Mapping Labs and Global Connection activities. Enhanced Mapping Labs and Global Connections Favorite activities like Mapping Labs and Global Connections have been enhanced.

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Cultivating Authenticity in Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Last year we launched a blog where the students in Europe chronicled and reflected on essential questions, focusing on a dark time in human history. We also encourage our history teachers to Skype with the study tour if the times can be worked out. Some teachers even have their students respond to the posts each day.

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Spatial Turn in Urban Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

Eric Wolf (1982) laid the theoretical groundwork in his landmark history of how the movement of capital and labor has transformed global relations since the 1400s, dispelling the myth that globalization is a recent phenomenon.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

A child rides a bike on the playground at Global Connections Learning Center in Jackson. There are also things like the ability to offer multiple electives, a variety of foreign languages, different types of history classes, Advanced Placement classes. Photo: Jackie Mader. JACKSON, Miss. Those options matter.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

For instance, in 2021 for the first time in its 200-year history the UK Census allowed people the option to state their sexual orientation and gender identity. This was clearly evident throughout my time teaching high-school geography and PSHE, and I concur with Chowdhury’s observation that our young people are the most globally connected.*